BACKLASH
Dictionary entry overview: What does backlash mean?
• BACKLASH (noun)
The noun BACKLASH has 2 senses:
1. a movement back from an impact
2. an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence
Familiarity information: BACKLASH used as a noun is rare.
• BACKLASH (verb)
The verb BACKLASH has 1 sense:
1. come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect
Familiarity information: BACKLASH used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BACKLASH (noun)
Meaning:
A movement back from an impact
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
backlash; rebound; recoil; repercussion
Hypernyms ("backlash" is a kind of...):
motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "backlash"):
bounce; bouncing (rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts))
resilience; resiliency (an occurrence of rebounding or springing back)
carom; ricochet (a glancing rebound)
Meaning:
An adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
there was a backlash of intolerance
Hypernyms ("backlash" is a kind of...):
reaction (doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "backlash"):
white backlash; whitelash (backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances)
• BACKLASH (verb)
Meaning:
Come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
backfire; backlash; recoil
Context example:
Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble
Hypernyms (to "backlash" is one way to...):
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)
Sentence frame:
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